Monday, October 05, 2015

Good-bye

Reflecting Light has been reflecting lightly for 10 years, since September 2005. I'm suspending it now -- I say "suspending" because I don't know, sometime I might want to revive it, but it's only fair to readers to acknowledge that the thrill is gone, the amusement is gone, and there's no point keeping the blog on a drip feed of occasional posts.I've decided on this course for various reasons, but I suppose the main one is that it no longer serves any purpose. Quite a bit of what I wrote some years ago was satire on then-current events, often political. But today's reality is so twisted that it's beyond my ability to satirize. I am hardly alone in thinking Western civilization is in existential peril: we will be lucky to escape being saturated by government control, including of speech and self-expression, or subjugation to the forces of jihad, including jihad by migrant invasion and massive birth rates among the migrants. I can't laugh at such prospects and poking fun at rampant madness seems now like a futile gesture.Of course there are other subjects besides the geopolitical, and maybe I will (after a suitable respite) take them up as I often have in Reflecting Light, maybe in a new blog. Right now I don't feel up to it.Is any hope left? Of course: God, love, wisdom. May you experience one or all.

I've enjoyed your blog tremendously, which has a very unique perspective. I understand the feeling of losing steam. Like rock bands, maybe all of us only have so many years of "good stuff" in us. I feel that way at times, but I've enjoyed your blogging while it lasted. Good luck in all things.

Thanks! I hadn't looked at the comments-in-waiting since I discontinued the blog a year ago, so I am sorry I didn't respond to yours at the time you wrote.

No, I'm still not on Twitter or any other social media. If I wanted to carry on I'd stick with Reflecting Light, but I'm letting it rest. As I noted in my last posting, I cannot adequately comment on the current national and global dementia.

At some point I suspect I will start a new blog centered on arts and letters, assuming Armageddon is postponed.

Olympus, where the abode of the gods stands firm and unmoving forever, they say, and is notshaken with windsnor spattered with rains,nor does snow pile ever there, but the shining bright airstretches cloudless away,and the white lightglances upon it.

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